Looking for upskilling yourself or your team on how to plan and manage research projects?
Check out our Compass Guide courses!
If you are looking for a practical, interactive and customised research and project management training, contact us by email to discuss your needs.
We work with our clients to customise courses to their needs.
We offer online courses in real time as well as on demand customised courses and workshops delivered in person or online.
All our courses and training are available in English and Spanish.
All our research training courses include a 1-month complimentary viewing-only access to one of the relevant Compass Guide books.
Contact us to discuss your needs and how we can help you and your organisation to unlock your research potential.
All our online courses are delivered in real time
- Designed and delivered by Dr Sandra Mandic
- Maximum capacity: 15 participants per course
- Delivered online in 2-hour blocks
- Course fee includes a complimentary 30-day viewing-only access of the relevant Compass Guide book
- Discounts are available for groups of 4 or more participants. Contact us by email to discuss your needs and obtain a quote.
- Course registrations close three days prior to the first course session.
- Each course registration will be complete once we receive a payment of course fees. Course fees must be paid minimum three days before the first scheduled course sessions.
- Participants paying a student fee will also need to send a proof of the student status by email to agile.research.nz@gmail.com.
Our customised on-demand courses
We offer a range of on-demand research training and project management courses. Some of those courses are listed below, including examples of course flyers with details for three courses.
Contact us if you would like more information about those on-demand Compass Guide courses and discuss the needs of your organisation.
Journey from Research Questions to Reports and Presentations (course flyer in English; folleto del curso en español)
How to Navigate
Your Postgraduate Research Journey
Supercharge Your Supervision of Student Research Projects (course flyer in English; folleto del curso en español)
How to Prepare
High Quality Research Reports
How to Write Scientific Journal Articles
How to Create and Deliver Effective Presentations
Effective Sharing
of Research Findings Outside Academia
How to Plan Your Research Project (course flyer in English; folleto del curso en español)
Achieving Research Project Success: Embracing the Power of Research Project Management
Project Management Training for Knowledge Projects in Government
Essentials of Project Management
for Academia
Our Workshops and Seminars
This section contains several examples of workshops and seminars that we have delivered to various audiences from different sectors.
Check out our catalogue additional examples of workshops and seminar that we offer. All our workshops and seminars are custom-designed and delivered based on clients’ needs.
Secrets of Successful Cross-Sector Collaboration (seminar)
Wellington Regional Leadership Committee – Thought Leadership Series, Wellington, New Zealand
Helping Students Navigate Their Postgraduate Research Journey (workshop)
Full day workshop for an academic delegation from Shihezi University, China
Achieving Research Programme Success: The Power of Vision, Teamwork and Research Project Management
Centre for Sustainability, Dunedin, New Zealand
Using Agile Project Management to Lead a Multidisciplinary Research Programme: A Real World Example (seminar)
Project Management Institute Sweden Chapter, Stockholm, Sweden
How to Plan Your Research Project: A Research Proposal versus a Project Plan (workshop)
Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
How to Deliver Your Research Outputs (seminar)
LIKES Research Centre, Jamk University of Applied Sciences, Jyväskylä, Finland
Conference contributions
We also consider invitations to deliver conference presentations and workshops in the areas of research training, research project management and career development.
Using Agile Project Management in Academic Research (presentation)
New Zealand Project Management Conference 2024, Wellington, New Zealand
Following Your Dreams and Carving Your Professional Path – and Destiny (creative workshop)
PACO & PACA Symposium, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain
Contact us at agile.research.nz@gmail.com to discuss your needs and how we can help designing and delivering the training to meet your organisation’s goals.